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In article <1672@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
|unfortunately, writing a
|multi-tasking kernel is a bear, and I certainly wouldn't want to try it.

Actually writing one is pretty easy so long as you don't have to write
the whole thing in assembler.  If you stick to writing a
message-passing kernel and implement just about everything else as a
user process, it's pretty trivial; the kernel portion will be only a
few k on 80x86 hardware.  For a good example, see "MINIX:  Operating
Systems Design And Implementation" by Andrew Tanenbaum.  He
implemented a V7 UNIX interface on a message-passing kernel.
Something simpler would be much less work.

Happy hacking,

jim frost
madd@std.com